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    Challenges→People who give incompatibilist responses because they confuse determinism with bypassing do not hold a genuine commitment to incompatibilism.

    Nahmias and colleagues' 'bypassing' research shows folk incompatibilism tracks agent-causation concerns, not mere conceptual confusion about mechanism.

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    • 1.Nahmias's vignettes isolate agent-causation intuitions by holding mechanism constant, suggesting folk rejection tracks metaphysical, not mechanistic concerns.
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    • 2.Folk judgments distinguish cases with identical physical processes but different agent involvement, indicating sensitivity to causation type, not confusion.
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    • 3.If incompatibilism merely reflected conceptual confusion, reframing determinism in simpler terms would shift judgments; empirically it doesn't consistently.
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    • 1.Bypassing scenarios may trigger agent-detection heuristics unrelated to genuine metaphysical reasoning about free will and determinism.
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    • 2.Folk intuitions about 'real' agency could reflect proto-theories about causation that are themselves confused, not sophisticated metaphysical insight.
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    • 3.Distinguishing mechanistic from agential concerns requires folk grasp of determinism; most participants lack philosophical clarity on this concept.
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